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Obama Vacation Tip Not All That

Filed under: Barack Obama President Barack Obama is usually quite the gracious tipper, but stories of him dropping dollars in Martha’s Vineyard are a tad exaggerated. It sounded like a good economic indicator when it was reported today that the Prez tipped the clerk at a … Permalink

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Free Xbox LIVE Gold weekend starts today

Starting today and ending at 9:00 A.M. PST on Monday, Xbox LIVE Silver members will be able to enjoy all the benefits of having a Gold membership for free through the weekend.

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Obama pays final tribute to Senator Kennedy

BOSTON — During the funeral of Edward M. Kennedy on Saturday morning, the longtime senator was remembered as a “happy warrior” by President Obama, a figure of outsized public impact and of enduring private faith in a Mass that seemed as large as the life of the man being commemorated

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President Obama will deliver eulogy at Senator Kennedy’s funeral

After a long time friendship with the senator, President Obama will deliver a eulogy at the late senator's funeral. Not many people knew that the President became close friends and comrades when Obama first became a junior senator.

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Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic

We were disappointed yesterday when the cowardly Wall Street Journal failed to fire faux-trendspotting flack Mark Penn for using his newspaper column to troll for PR clients. But—hearteningly—both Penn and the paper appear increasingly pathetic! We do feel for the beleaguered actual reporters in the WSJ newsroom, who have to see their own reputations suffer by association while their paper’s leadership caves in to a celebrity pseudo-columnist’s right to disregard basic conflict-of-interest rules

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Wikipedia gets new rules

On the English version it's arriving the “controlled revision”: information will be checked by some volunteer editors, before being entered on web.

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Mali women’s rights bill blocked

The president of Mali has announced that he is not going to sign the country's new family law, instead returning it to parliament for review.

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Dominick Dunne, Author

Dominick Dunne , chronicler of crime, celebrity, and the intersection of the two, has died at 83. Dunne had been suffering from bladder cancer. He was diagnosed last year, and his decline was sudden and largely unexpected, though Liz Smith reported on his condition just yesterday

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Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients

Mark Penn , the strategist who dashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, is the Wall Street Journal ‘s “Microtrend”-spotting columnist.

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Ted Kennedy: An Assessment

Edward Kennedy, the last surviving son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, was the third-longest serving US Senator of all time. He was a drunken degenerate.

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